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listen to me please you're like me o
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Homo sapiens a wise human life a miracle
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in the universe appeared around four
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billion years ago and we humans only
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200,000 years ago yet we have succeeded
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in disrupting the balance that is so
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essential to life listen carefully to
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this extraordinary story which is yours
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and decide what you want to do with it
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these are traces of our origins at the
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beginning our planet was no more than a
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chaos of fire a cloud of agglutinated
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dust particles similar to so many
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similar clusters in the universe yet
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this was where the miracle of life
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occurred
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today life or life is just a link in a
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chain of innumerable living beings that
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have succeeded one another on earth over
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nearly four billion years and even today
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new volcanoes continue to sculpt our
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landscapes they offer a glimpse of what
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our earth was like at its birth molten
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rock surging from the depths solidifying
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cracking blistering or spreading in a
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thin crust before falling dormant for a
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these wreaths of smoke curling from the
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bowels of the earth bear witness to the
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Earth's original atmosphere and
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atmosphere devoid of oxygen a dense
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atmosphere thick with water vapor full
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of carbon dioxide
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the earth cooled the water vapor
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condensed and fell in torrential
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downpours at the right distance from the
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Sun not too far not too near the Earth's
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perfect balance enabled it to conserve
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water in the liquid form the water cut
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channels they are like the veins of a
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body the branches of a tree the vessels
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of the SAP that the water gave to the
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the rivers tour minerals from the rocks
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and gradually added them to the
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freshwater of the oceans and the oceans
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became heavy with salt
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where do we come from where did life
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first spark into B
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a miracle of time primitive life-forms
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still exist in the globe's Hot Springs
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they give them their colors they're
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called archaea bacteria
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they all feed off the Earth's heat all
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except the cyanobacteria or blue-green
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algae they alone have the capacity to
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turn to the Sun to capture its energy
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they are a vital ancestor of all
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yesterday's and today's plant species
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these tiny bacteria and their billions
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of descendants change the destiny of our
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planet they transformed its atmosphere
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what happened to the carbon that poisons
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the atmosphere it's still here
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imprisoned in the Earth's crust
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here there once was a sea inhabited by
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microorganisms they grew their shells by
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tapping into carbon from the atmosphere
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dissolved in the ocean these strata are
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the accumulated shells of those billions
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and billions of microorganisms
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thanks to them the carbon drained from
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the atmosphere and other life-forms
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could develop it is life that altered
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the atmosphere
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plantlife fed off the sun's energy which
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enabled it to break apart the water
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molecule and take the oxygen and oxygen
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filled the air the Earth's water cycle
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is a process of constant renewal
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waterfalls water vapor clouds rain
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cycle is never broken there's always the
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same quantity of water on earth all the
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successive species on earth have drunk
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the astonishing matter that is water one
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of the most unstable of all it takes a
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liquid form as running water gaseous as
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vapor or solid as ice in Siberia the
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contain the traces of the forces that
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water deploys when it freezes lighter
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than water the ice floats it forms a
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protective mantle against the cold under
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which life can go on
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the engine of life is linkage everything
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is linked nothing is self-sufficient
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water and air are inseparable United in
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life before our life on earth sharing is
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the green expanse peeking through the
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clouds is the source of oxygen in the
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air seventy percent of this gas without
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which our lungs cannot function comes
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from the algae that tint the surface of
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the oceans our earth relies on a balance
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in which every being has a role to play
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and exists only through the existence of
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another being a subtle fragile harmony
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that is easily shattered
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thus corals are born from the marriage
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of algae and shells coral reefs cover
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less than 1% of the ocean floor but they
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provide a habitat for thousands of
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species of fish mollusks and algae the
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equilibrium of every ocean depends on
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the earth counts time in billions of
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years it took more than four billion
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years for it to make trees
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in the chain of species trees are a
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pinnacle a perfect living sculpture
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trees defy gravity they are the only
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natural element and perpetual movement
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toward the sky
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they grow unhurriedly toward the Sun
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that nourishes their foliage
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they have inherited from those minuscule
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cyno bacteria the power to capture
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lights energy they store it and feed off
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it turning it into Ward and leaves which
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then decomposed into a mixture of water
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mineral vegetable and living matter
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and so gradually soils are formed
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soils team with the incessant activity
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of microorganisms feeding digging
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aerating and transforming they make the
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houmous the Fertile layer to which all
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life on land is linked
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what do we know about life on Earth how
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many species are we aware of a tenth of
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them a hundredth perhaps what do we know
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about the bonds that link them
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the earth is a miracle life remains a
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mystery
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families of animals form united by
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customs and rituals that are handed down
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some adapt to the nature of their
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pasture and their pasture adapts to them
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and both gain the animal Sates its
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hunger and the tree can blossom again
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in the great adventure of life on earth
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every species has a role to play every
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species has its place none is futile or
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harmful they all balance out
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and that's where you almost APM's why is
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human enter the story
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you benefit from a fabulous four billion
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year old legacy bequeathed by the earth
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you're only 200 thousand years old but
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you have changed the face of the world
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despite your vulnerability you have
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taken possession of every habitat and
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conquered swathes of territory like no
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other species before you
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after a hundred and eighty thousand
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nomadic years and thanks to a more
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Clement climate humans settled down they
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no longer depended on hunting for
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survival they chose to live in wet
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environments that abounded in fish game
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and wild plants there were land water
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and life combined
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even today the majority of humankind
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lives on the continents coastlines or
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the banks of rivers and lakes
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across the planet one person in four
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lives as humankind did 6,000 years ago
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their only energy that which nature
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provides season after season it's the
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way of life of one and a half billion
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people more than the combined population
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but life expectancy is short and hard
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labor takes its toll the uncertainties
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of nature weigh on daily life education
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is a rare privilege children are a
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family's only asset as long as every
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extra pair of hands is a necessary
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humanity's genius is to have always had
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a sense of his weakness the physical
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energy and strength with which nature
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insufficiently endowed humans is found
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in animals that help them to discover
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but how can you conquer the world on an
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the invention of agriculture turned our
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history on end it was less than 10,000
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years ago agriculture was our first
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it resulted in the first surpluses and
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gave birth to cities and civilizations
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the memory of thousands of years
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grain the yeast of life we multiplied
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the number of varieties and learn to
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adapt them to our soils and climates
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we're like every species on earth our
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principle daily concern is to feed
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ourselves when the soil is less than
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generous and the water becomes scarce we
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are able to deploy prodigious efforts to
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extract from the land enough to live on
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humans shaped the land of the patience
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and devotion that the earth demands in
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an almost sacrificial ritual performed
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over and over
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agriculture is still the world's most
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widespread occupation half of humankind
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kills the soil over three-quarters of
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them by hand
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agriculture is like a tradition handed
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down from generation to generation in
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sweat graft and toil
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because for Humanity is a prerequisite
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of survival
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but after relying on muscle power for so
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humankind found a way to tap into the
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energy buried deep in the earth
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these flames are also from plants a
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pocket of sunlight pure energy the
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energy of the Sun captured over millions
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of years by millions of plants more than
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a hundred million years ago it's cold
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its gas and above all its oil
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and this pocket of sunlight freed humans
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from their toil on the land
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with oil began the era of humans who
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break free of the shackles of time
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with oil some of us acquired
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unprecedented cumference and in 50 years
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in a single lifetime the earth has been
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more radically changed than by all
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previous generations of humanity
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faster and faster in the last sixty
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years the Earth's population has almost
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tripled and over two billion people have
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moved to the cities faster and faster
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skyscrapers and millions of inhabitants
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was just a small fishing village barely
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40 years ago faster and faster in
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Shanghai 3000 towers and skyscrapers
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have been built in 20 years hundreds
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more are under construction today over
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half of the world's 7 billion
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New York the world's first megalopolis
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is the symbol of the exploitation of the
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energy the earth supplies to humans use
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the manpower of millions of immigrants
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the energy of coal the unbridled power
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of oil
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America is the first to harness the
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phenomenal revolutionary power of black
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gold in the fields machines replaced men
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a liter of oil generates as much energy
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as 100 pairs of hands in 24 hours in the
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United States only 3 million farmers are
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left they produce enough grain to feed 2
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billion people but most of that grain is
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not used to feed people here and in all
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other industrialized nations is
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transformed into livestock feed or
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biofuels
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away the specter of drought that stalked
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farmland no spring escapes the demands
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of Agriculture which accounts for 70% of
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humanity's water consumption in nature
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everything is linked the expansion of
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cultivated land and single crop farming
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encouraged the development of parasites
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pesticides another gift of the
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petrochemical revolution exterminated
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them bad harvests and famine became a
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distant memory the biggest headache now
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was what to do with the surpluses
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engendered by modern agriculture
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but toxic pesticides seeped into the air
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soil plants animals rivers and oceans
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they penetrated the heart of cells
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similar to the mother cell that is
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shared by all forms of life are they
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harmful to the humans that they released
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from hunger these farmers in their
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yellow protective suits probably have a
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good idea
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then came fertilizers another
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petrochemical discovery they produced
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unprecedented results on plots of land
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thus far ignored
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crops adapted to soils and climates gave
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way to the most productive varieties and
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the easiest to transport and so in the
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last century three-quarters of the
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varieties developed by farmers over
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thousands of years have been wiped out
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as far as the eye can see
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fertilizer below plastic on top the
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greenhouses of Almeria in Spain are
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Europe's vegetable garden a city of
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uniformly sized vegetables weights every
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day for the hundreds of trucks it will
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take them to the continents supermarkets
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the more country develops the more meat
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its inhabitants consume
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how can growing worldwide demand be
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satisfied without recourse at
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concentration camp-style cattle farms
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faster and faster like the life cycle of
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livestock which may never see a meadow
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Manufacturing need faster than the
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animal has become a daily routine in
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these vast food Lots trampled by
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millions of cattle not a blade of grass
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grows a fleet of trucks from every
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corner of the country brings in tons of
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grain soy meal and protein-rich granules
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that will become tonnes
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the result is that it takes 100 liters
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of water to produce one kilogram of
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potatoes 4000 liters for 1 kilo of rice
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and 13,000 liters for 1 kilo of beef not
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to mention the oil guzzled in the
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production process and transport
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our agriculture has become oil-powered
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it feeds twice as many humans on earth
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but has replaced diversity with
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standardization it has offered many of
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us comforts we could only dream of
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but it makes our way of life totally
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dependent on oil this is the new measure
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of time our world's clock now beats to
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the rhythm of these indefatigable
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machines tapping into the pocket of
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sunlight the whole planet is attentive
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to these metronomes of our hopes and
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illusions the same hopes and illusions
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that proliferate along with our needs
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increasingly insatiable desires and
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profligacy we know that the end of cheap
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oil is imminent but we refuse to believe
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it for many of us the American Dream is
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embodied by a legendary name Los Angeles
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in this city that stretches over 100
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kilometers the number of cars is almost
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equal to the number of inhabitants here
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energy puts on a fantastic show every
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the days seem to be no more than the
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pale reflection of nights that turn the
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city into a starry sky
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faster and faster distances are no
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longer counted in miles but in minutes
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the automobile shapes new suburbs where
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every home is a castle a safe distance
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from the asphyxiated city centers and
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where neat rows of houses huddle around
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dead-end streets a model of of lucky few
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countries has become a universal dream
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preached by televisions all over the
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world even here in Beijing is cloned
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copied and reproduced in these formatted
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houses that have wiped pagodas off the
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map
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the automobile has become the symbol of
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comfort and progress if this model were
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followed by every society the planet
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wouldn't have 900 million vehicles as it
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does today but five billion faster and
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faster the more the world develops the
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greater its thirst for energy everywhere
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machines dig bore can rip from the earth
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the pieces of stars buried in it's
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deaths since its creation news
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as a privilege of power 80% of this
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mineral wealth is consumed by 20% of the
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world's population before the end of
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this century excessive mining will have
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exhausted nearly all the planet's
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reserves
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faster and faster shipyards churn out
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oil tankers container ships and gas
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tankers to cater for the demands of
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globalized industrial production most
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consumer goods travel thousands of
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kilometers from the country of
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production to the country of consumption
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since 1950 the volume of international
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trade has increased 20 times over
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90% of trade goes by see 500 million
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containers are transported every year
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headed for the world's major hubs of
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consumption such as Dubai Dubai is a
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sort of culmination of the Western model
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a country where the impossible becomes
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possible building artificial islands in
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the sea for example Dubai has few
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natural resources but with the money
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from oil it can bring millions of tons
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of material and workers from all over
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the planet Dubai has no farmland but it
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can import food Dubai has no water but
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it can afford to expend immense amounts
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of energy to desalinate seawater and
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build the highest skyscrapers in the
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world Dubai has endless Sun but no solar
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panels it is the totem to total
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modernity that never fails to amaze the
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world
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dubai is like the new beacon for all the
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world's money
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nothing seems further removed from
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nature than Dubai although nothing
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depends on nature more than Dubai Dubai
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is a sort of culmination of the Western
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model we haven't understood that we're
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depleting what nature provides
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since 1950 fishing catches have
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increased fivefold from eighteen to a
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hundred million metric tons a year
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thousands of factory ships are emptying
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the oceans three-quarters of fishing
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grounds are exhausted depleted or in
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danger of being so most large fish have
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been fished out of existence since they
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have no time to reproduce
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we are destroying the cycle of a life
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that was given to us
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at the current rate all fish stocks are
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threatened with exhaustion
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fish is a staple diet of one-in-five
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humans
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we have forgotten that resources are
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scarce 500 million humans live in the
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world's desert lands more than the
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combined population of Europe they know
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the value of water they know how to use
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it sparingly here they depend on wells
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replenished by fossil water which
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accumulated underground in the days when
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it rained on these deserts 25,000 years
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ago fossil water also enables crops to
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be grown in the desert to provide food
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for local populations the fields
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circular shape derives from the pipes
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that irrigate them around a central
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pivot but there is a heavy price to pay
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false awarder is a non-renewable
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resource
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in Saudi Arabia the dream of industrial
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farming in the desert is faded as if on
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a parchment map the light spots on this
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patchwork show abandoned plots the
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irrigation equipment is still there the
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energy to pump water also but the fossil
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water reserves are severely depleted
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Israel turned the desert into arable
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land
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even though these hothouses are now
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irrigated drop by drop water consumption
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continues to increase along with exports
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the ones Mighty River Jordan is now just
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a trickle its water has flown to
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supermarkets all over the world in
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crates of fruit and vegetables
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the Jordans fate is not unique across
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the planet one major river in ten no
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longer flows into the sea for several
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months of the year
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deprived of the Jordans water the level
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of the Dead Sea goes down by over one
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meter per year
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India risks being the country that
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suffers most from the lack of water in
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the coming century massive irrigation
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has fed the growing population and in
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the last 50 years 21 million wells have
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been dug in many parts of the country
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the drill has to sink ever deeper to hit
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water in western India 30 percent of
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wells have been abandoned the
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underground aquifers are drying out
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vast reservoirs will catch the monsoon
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range to replenish the aquifers in dry
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season women from local villages dig
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them with their bare hands
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thousands of kilometers away 800 to a
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thousand liters of water are consumed
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per person per day Las Vegas was built
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out of the desert millions of people
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live there thousands more arrive every
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month the inhabitants of Las Vegas are
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among the biggest consumers of water in
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the world
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Palm Springs is another desert city with
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tropical vegetation and lush golf
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courses how long can this Mirage
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continue to prosper the earth cannot
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keep up the Colorado River which brings
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water to these cities is one of those
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rivers that no longer reaches the sea
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water levels in the catchment legs along
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its course are plummeting
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water shortages could affect nearly two
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billion people before 2025
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[Music]
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the wetlands represent 6% of the surface
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of the planet under their calm water
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lies a veritable factory where plants
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and microorganisms patiently filter the
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water and digest all the pollution these
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marshes are indispensable environments
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for the regeneration and purification of
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water
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they are sponges that regulate the flow
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of water they absorb it in the wet
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season and release it in the dry season
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in our race to conquer more land we have
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reclaimed them as pasture for our
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livestock or is land for agriculture or
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building
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in the last century half of the world's
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marshes were drained we know neither
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their richness nor their role
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[Music]
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all living matter is linked water bare
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soil trees the world's magic is right in
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front of our eyes
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[Music]
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trees breathe groundwater into the
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atmosphere as light mist they form a
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canopy that alleviates the impact of
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heavy rains the forests provide the
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humidity that is necessary for life
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they store carbon containing more than
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all the Earth's atmosphere they are the
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cornerstone of the climactic balance and
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which we all depend
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the trees of the primary forests provide
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a habitat for three-quarters of the
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planets biodiversity that to say of all
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life on Earth
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[Music]
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these forests provide the remedies that
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cure us the substances secreted by these
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plants can be recognized by our bodies
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our cells talk the same language we are
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of the same family
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[Music]
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until
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[Music]
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but in barely forty years the world's
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largest rainforest the Amazon has been
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reduced by 20 percent
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[Music]
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the forest gives way to cattle ranches
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or soybean farms 95% of these soybeans
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are used to feed livestock and poultry
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in Europe and Asia and so a forest is
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turned into meat
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barely 20 years ago
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Borneo the fourth largest island in the
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world was covered by a vast primary
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forest at the current rate of
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deforestation they will have totally
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disappeared within ten years
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living matter bonds water air earth and
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the Sun in Borneo
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this bond has been broken in what was
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one of the Earth's greatest reservoirs
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of biodiversity
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this catastrophe was provoked by the
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decision to produce palm oil one of the
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most productive and consumed oils in the
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world on Borneo palm oil not only caters
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to our growing demand for food but also
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cosmetics detergents and increasingly
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alternative fuels the forest diversity
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was replaced by a single species the oil
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palm for local people it provides
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employment it is an agricultural
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industry another example of massive
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deforestation is the eucalyptus
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eucalyptus is used to make paper pulp
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plantations are growing as demand for
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paper has increased fivefold in 50 years
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one forest does not replace another
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forest at the foot of these eucalyptus
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trees nothing grows because their leaves
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form a bed that is toxic for most other
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plants
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they grow quickly but exhaust water
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reserves soybeans palm oil eucalyptus
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trees deforestation destroys the
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essential to produce the superfluous but
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elsewhere deforestation is a last resort
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to survive
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over two billion people almost a third
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of the world's population still depend
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on charcoal in Haiti one of the world's
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poorest countries charcoal is one of the
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populations main consumables once the
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pearl of the Caribbean Haiti can no
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longer feed its population without
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foreign aid on the hills of Haiti only
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two percent of the forests are left
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stripped bare nothing holds the soils
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back the rainwater washes them down the
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hillsides as far as the sea what's left
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is increasingly unsuitable for
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agriculture
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in some parts of Madagascar the erosion
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is spectacular whole hillsides bare deep
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gashes hundreds of meters wide thin and
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fragile soil is made by living matter
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with erosion the fine layer of houmous
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which took thousands of years to form
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disappears
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[Music]
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here's one theory of the story of the
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Rapanui
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the inhabitants of Easter Island it
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could perhaps give us pause for thought
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living on the most isolated island in
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the world the Rapa Nui exploited their
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resources until there was nothing left
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their civilization did not survive on
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these lands did the highest palm trees
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in the world they have disappeared the
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Rapa Nui chopped them all down for
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lumber they then had to face widespread
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soil erosion
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the Rapanui could no longer go fishing
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there were no trees to build canoes
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and yet the Rapanui formed one of the
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most brilliant civilizations in the
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Pacific innovative farmers sculptors
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exceptional navigators they were caught
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in the vise of overpopulation and
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dwindling resources they experienced
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social unrest revolts and famine many
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did not survive the Cataclysm
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the real mystery of Easter Island is not
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how its strange statues got there we
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know now it's why the Rapanui didn't
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react in time
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it's only one of a number of theories
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but it has particular relevance to us
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today
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[Music]
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since 1950 the world's population has
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almost trembled and since 1950 we have
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more fundamentally altered our island
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the earth than in all of our 200,000
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year history Nigeria is the biggest oil
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exporter in Africa and yet 70% of the
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population lives under the poverty line
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the wealth is there but the country's
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inhabitants don't have access to it the
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same is true all over the globe half the
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world's poor live in resource-rich
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countries
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our mode of development has not
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fulfilled his promises in 50 years the
743
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gap between rich and poor has grown
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wider than ever today half the world's
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wealth is in the hands of the richest 2%
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of the population
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can such disparities be maintained there
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the cause of population movements whose
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scale we have yet to fully realize the
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city of Lagos had a population of
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700,000 in 1960 that will rise to 16
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million by 2025 Lagos is one of the
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fastest-growing megalopolis in the world
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the new arrivals are mostly farmers
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forced off the land for economic or
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demographic reasons or because of
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diminishing resources this is a
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radically new type of urban growth
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driven by the urge to survive rather
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than to prosper
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[Music]
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every week over a million people swell
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the populations of the world's cities
764
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one human being in six now lives in a
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precarious unhealthy overpopulated
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environment without access to daily
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necessities such as water sanitation
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electricity
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[Music]
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hunger is spreading once more it affects
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nearly 1 billion people
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[Music]
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[Music]
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all over the planet the poorest Scrabble
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to survive on scraps while we continue
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to dig for resources that we can no
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longer live without we look farther and
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farther afield in previously unspoilt
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territory and in regions that are
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increasingly difficult to exploit
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we're not changing our mop
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oil might run out we can still extract
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oil from the tar sands of Canada the
784
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biggest trucks in the world move
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thousands of tons of sand the process of
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heating and separating bitumen from the
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sand requires millions of cubic meters
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of water colossal amounts of energy are
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needed the pollution is catastrophic the
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most urgent priority apparently is to
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pick every pocket of sunlight
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[Music]
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[Music]
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our oil tankers are getting bigger and
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bigger our energy requirements are
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constantly increasing we try to power
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growth like a bottomless oven the
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demands more and more fuel
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[Music]
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it's all about carbon in a few decades
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the carbon that made our atmosphere a
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furnace and that nature captured over
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millions of years allowing life to
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develop will have largely been pumped
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back out the atmosphere is heating up it
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would have been inconceivable for a boat
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to be here just a few years ago
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transport industry deforestation
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agriculture our activities release
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gigantic quantities of carbon dioxide
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without realizing it molecule by
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molecule we have upset the Earth's
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climatic balance
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all eyes are on the poles where the
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effects of global warming are most
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visible it's happening fast very fast
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the Northwest Passage that connects
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America Europe and Asia via the pole is
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opening up the Arctic ice cap is melting
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under the effect of global warming the
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ice cap has lost 40% of its thickness in
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40 years its surface area in the summer
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shrinks year by year it could disappear
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in the summer months by 2030 some say
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2015
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the sunbeams that the ice sheet
827
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previously reflected back now penetrate
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the dark water heating it up the warming
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process gathers pace
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this ice contains the records of our
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planet the concentration of carbon
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dioxide hasn't been so high for several
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hundred thousand years humanity has
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never lived in an atmosphere like this
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[Music]
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is excessive exploitation of our
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resources threatening the lives of every
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species climate change accentuates the
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threat by 2050 a quarter of the Earth's
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species could be threatened with
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extinction in these polar regions the
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balance of nature has already been
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disrupted
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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around the North Pole the ice cap has
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lost 30% of its surface area in 30 years
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but as Greenland rapidly becomes warmer
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the freshwater of a whole continent
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flows into the salt water of the oceans
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Greenland's ice contains 20% of the
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freshwater of the whole planet if it
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melts sea levels will rise by nearly
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seven meters
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but there is no industry here
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Greenland's ice sheet suffers from
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greenhouse gases emitted elsewhere on
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earth our ecosystem doesn't have borders
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wherever we are our actions have
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repercussions on the whole earth the
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atmosphere of our planet is an
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indivisible whole it is an asset we
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share
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on Greenland's surface lakes are
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appearing on the landscape the ice cap
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has begun to melt at a speed that even
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the most pessimistic scientists did not
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envision ten years ago
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more and more of these glacier-fed
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rivers are merging together and
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borrowing through the surface it was
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thought the water would freeze in the
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depths of the ice on the contrary it
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flows under the ice
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carrying the ice sheet into the sea
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where it breaks into icebergs
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as the freshwater of Greenland's ice
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sheet gradually seeps into the salt
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water of the oceans low-lying lands
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around the globe are threatened
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[Music]
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sea levels are rising water expanding as
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it gets warmer caused in the 20th
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century alone a rise of 20 centimeters
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everything becomes unstable coral reefs
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for example are extremely sensitive to
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the slightest change in water
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temperature 30% have disappeared they
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are an essential link in the chain of
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species
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[Music]
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in the atmosphere the major winds dreams
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are changing direction rain cycles are
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altered the geography of climates is
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modified the inhabitants of low-lying
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islands here in the Maldives for example
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are on the front line they are
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increasingly concerned some are already
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looking for new more hospitable lands if
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sea levels continue to rise faster and
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faster
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what will major cities like Tokyo the
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world's most populous city do every year
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scientist predictions become more and
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more alarming 70% of the world's
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population lives on coastal plains 11 of
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the 15 biggest cities stand on a
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coastline or River estuary as the Seas
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rise salt will invade the water table
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depriving inhabitants of drinking water
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migratory phenomena are inevitable the
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only uncertainty concerns their scale
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in Africa Mount Kilimanjaro is
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unrecognizable 80 percent of its
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glaciers have disappeared in summer the
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rivers no longer flow local peoples are
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affected by the lack of water even on
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the world's highest peaks in the heart
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of the Himalayas eternal snows and
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glaciers are receding yet these glaciers
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clean essential role in the water cycle
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they trapped the water from the monsoons
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as ice and release it in the summer and
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the snow melts
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the glaciers of the Himalayas are the
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source of all the great Asian rivers the
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Indus Ganges Mekong Yangtze ten two
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billion people depend on them for
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drinking water and to irrigate their
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crops as in Bangladesh on the Delta of
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the Ganges and Brahmaputra Bangladesh is
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directly affected by the phenomena
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occurring in the Himalayas and at sea
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level this is one of the most populous
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and poorest countries in the world is
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already hit by global warming the
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combined impact of increasingly dramatic
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floods and hurricanes could make a third
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of its landmass disappear when
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populations are subjected to these
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devastating phenomena they eventually
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move away
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wealthy countries will not be spared
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droughts are occurring all over the
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planet in Australia half of farmland is
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already affected
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[Music]
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we are in the process of compromising
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the climactic balance that has allowed
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us to develop over 12,000 years
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[Music]
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more and more wildfires encroach on
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major cities in turn they exacerbate
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global warming as the trees burned they
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release carbon dioxide the system that
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controls our climate has been severely
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disrupted the elements on which it
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relies have been disrupted
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the clock of climate change is ticking
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in these magnificent landscapes here in
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Siberia and elsewhere across the globe
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it is so cold that the ground is
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constantly frozen it's known as
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permafrost under its surface lies a
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climactic timebomb methane a greenhouse
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gas 20 times more powerful than carbon
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dioxide
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if the permafrost melts the methane
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released would cause the greenhouse
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effect to race out of control with
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consequences no one can predict we would
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literally be in unknown territory
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humanity has no more than 10 years to
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reverse the trend and avoid crossing
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into this territory life on Earth as we
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have never known
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[Music]
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[Music]
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we have created phenomena we cannot
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control
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since our origins water air and forms of
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life are intimately linked but recently
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we have broken those links let's face
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the facts we must believe what we know
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all that we have just seen is a
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01:16:25,098 --> 01:16:33,126
reflection of human behavior
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01:16:29,042 --> 01:16:37,083
we have shaped the earth in our image we
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have very little time to change how can
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this century carry the burden of 9
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billion human beings if we refuse to be
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called to account for everything we
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alone have done
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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Oh
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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the cost of our actions is high others
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01:20:51,289 --> 01:20:56,150
pay the price without having been
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01:20:52,073 --> 01:20:58,109
actively involved I have seen refugee
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01:20:56,015 --> 01:20:59,080
camps as big as cities sprawling in the
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01:20:59,009 --> 01:21:03,118
desert
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01:20:59,008 --> 01:21:05,081
how many men women and children will be
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01:21:03,199 --> 01:21:08,203
left by the wayside tomorrow must we
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01:21:06,053 --> 01:21:10,142
always build walls to break the chain of
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01:21:08,599 --> 01:21:13,550
human solidarity separate peoples and
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01:21:11,042 --> 01:21:16,055
protect the happiness of some from the
1021
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misery of others it's too late to be a
1022
01:21:16,055 --> 01:21:19,082
pessimist
1023
01:21:17,329 --> 01:21:22,460
I know that a single human can knock
1024
01:21:19,082 --> 01:21:24,161
down every wall it's too late to be a
1025
01:21:22,046 --> 01:21:27,745
pessimist worldwide for children out of
1026
01:21:25,061 --> 01:21:29,610
five attend school never has learning
1027
01:21:28,159 --> 01:21:32,242
been given to so many human beings
1028
01:21:30,159 --> 01:21:34,130
everyone from richest to poorest can
1029
01:21:32,989 --> 01:21:36,320
make the contribution
1030
01:21:34,013 --> 01:21:38,018
Lesotho one of the world's poorest
1031
01:21:36,032 --> 01:21:40,117
countries is proportionally the one that
1032
01:21:38,063 --> 01:21:43,094
invests most in its people's education
1033
01:21:41,017 --> 01:21:45,586
Qatar one of the world's richest States
1034
01:21:43,094 --> 01:21:47,983
has opened its doors to the best
1035
01:21:45,739 --> 01:21:50,739
universities culture education research
1036
01:21:48,829 --> 01:21:53,840
and innovation are inexhaustible
1037
01:21:50,739 --> 01:21:56,750
resources in the face of misery and
1038
01:21:53,084 --> 01:21:58,157
suffering millions of NGOs prove that
1039
01:21:56,075 --> 01:22:01,384
solidarity between peoples is stronger
1040
01:21:59,057 --> 01:22:03,155
than the selfishness of Nations in
1041
01:22:02,059 --> 01:22:06,920
Bangladesh a man thought the unthinkable
1042
01:22:04,055 --> 01:22:08,914
and founded a bank that lends only to
1043
01:22:06,092 --> 01:22:10,148
the poor in 30 years it has changed the
1044
01:22:09,409 --> 01:22:14,840
lives of a hundred and fifty million
1045
01:22:11,048 --> 01:22:16,747
people Antarctica is a continent with
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01:22:14,084 --> 01:22:19,103
immense natural resources that no
1047
01:22:17,179 --> 01:22:22,258
country can claim for itself a natural
1048
01:22:20,003 --> 01:22:26,152
reserve devoted to peace and science a
1049
01:22:22,969 --> 01:22:29,030
treaty signed by 49 states has made it a
1050
01:22:26,179 --> 01:22:30,380
treasure shared by all humanity it's too
1051
01:22:29,003 --> 01:22:32,692
late to be a pessimist
1052
01:22:30,038 --> 01:22:34,073
governments have acted to protect nearly
1053
01:22:32,719 --> 01:22:36,805
2 percent of the world's territorial
1054
01:22:34,073 --> 01:22:39,098
waters is not much but as two times more
1055
01:22:37,579 --> 01:22:42,230
than 10 years ago the first natural
1056
01:22:39,098 --> 01:22:44,111
parks were created just over a century
1057
01:22:42,023 --> 01:22:47,048
ago they cover over 13% of the
1058
01:22:45,011 --> 01:22:49,055
continents they create spaces where
1059
01:22:47,048 --> 01:22:51,080
human activity is in step with the
1060
01:22:49,055 --> 01:22:54,092
preservation of species soils and
1061
01:22:51,008 --> 01:22:57,020
landscapes this harmony between humans
1062
01:22:54,092 --> 01:22:59,177
and nature can become the rule no longer
1063
01:22:57,092 --> 01:23:01,151
the exception in United States New York
1064
01:23:00,077 --> 01:23:04,130
has realized that nature does for us
1065
01:23:02,051 --> 01:23:07,109
these forests and lakes supply all the
1066
01:23:05,003 --> 01:23:10,055
drinking water the city needs in South
1067
01:23:08,009 --> 01:23:12,598
Korea the forests have been devastated
1068
01:23:10,082 --> 01:23:14,123
by war thanks to a national
1069
01:23:12,679 --> 01:23:19,010
reforestation program they once more
1070
01:23:15,023 --> 01:23:22,492
cover 65% of the country more than 75%
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01:23:19,001 --> 01:23:24,077
of paper is recycled Costa Rica has made
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a choice between military spending and
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the conservation of its lands the
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01:23:27,139 --> 01:23:31,190
country no longer has an army it prefers
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01:23:29,003 --> 01:23:33,044
to devote its resources to education
1076
01:23:31,019 --> 01:23:36,038
ecotourism and the protection of its
1077
01:23:33,071 --> 01:23:38,080
primary forests gobball is one of the
1078
01:23:36,038 --> 01:23:41,051
world's leading producers of wood it
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enforces selective logging not more than
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one tree every hectare is forests are
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01:23:44,027 --> 01:23:47,084
one of the country's most important
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01:23:45,739 --> 01:23:50,960
economic resources but they have the
1083
01:23:47,084 --> 01:23:52,153
time to regenerate programs exist they
1084
01:23:50,096 --> 01:23:54,185
guarantee sustainable forest management
1085
01:23:52,909 --> 01:23:59,250
they must become mandatory
1086
01:23:55,085 --> 01:24:01,086
for consumers and producers justice is
1087
01:23:59,025 --> 01:24:03,081
an opportunity to be seized when trade
1088
01:24:01,095 --> 01:24:06,096
is fair when both buyer and seller
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01:24:03,081 --> 01:24:10,098
benefit everybody can prosper and earn a
1090
01:24:07,005 --> 01:24:12,099
decent living how can there be justice
1091
01:24:10,098 --> 01:24:14,184
and equity between people whose only
1092
01:24:12,099 --> 01:24:17,118
tools are their hands and those who
1093
01:24:15,084 --> 01:24:19,181
harvest their crops or the Machine state
1094
01:24:18,018 --> 01:24:20,081
subsidies
1095
01:24:22,249 --> 01:24:28,570
let's be responsible consumers think
1096
01:24:25,729 --> 01:24:28,570
about what we buy
1097
01:24:30,869 --> 01:24:36,869
it's too late to be a pessimist I've
1098
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seen agriculture on a human scale it can
1099
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feed the whole planet if meat production
1100
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doesn't take the food out of people's
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mouths I've seen fishermen who take care
1102
01:24:45,033 --> 01:24:50,100
of what they catch and care for the
1103
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riches of the ocean I have seen houses
1104
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:56,001
producing their own energy 5,000 people
1105
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live in the world's first ever
1106
01:24:56,001 --> 01:25:01,002
eco-friendly district in Freiburg
1107
01:24:57,096 --> 01:25:03,875
Germany other cities partner the project
1108
01:25:01,002 --> 01:25:06,069
Mumbai is the thousandth to join the
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governments of New Zealand Iceland
1110
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Austria Sweden and other nations have
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01:25:09,659 --> 01:25:16,230
made the development of renewable energy
1112
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sources a top priority I know that 80%
1113
01:25:16,023 --> 01:25:21,090
of the energy we consume comes from
1114
01:25:19,011 --> 01:25:24,350
fossil energy sources every week two new
1115
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coal-fired generating plants are built
1116
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in China alone but I have also seen in
1117
01:25:27,599 --> 01:25:32,250
Denmark a prototype of a coal-fired
1118
01:25:29,489 --> 01:25:34,562
plant that releases its carbon into the
1119
01:25:32,025 --> 01:25:37,934
soil rather than the air a solution for
1120
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the future nobody knows yet I have seen
1121
01:25:38,159 --> 01:25:43,790
in Iceland an electricity plant powered
1122
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by the Earth's heat geothermal
1123
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I have seen a sea snake lying on the
1124
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swell to absorb the energy of the waves
1125
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and produce electricity I have seen wind
1126
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farms off the coast of Denmark that
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produced 20% of the country's
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electricity the USA China India Germany
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and Spain are the biggest investors in
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renewable energy they have already
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created over two and a half million jobs
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where on earth doesn't the wind blow I
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have seen desert expanses baking in the
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Sun everything on earth is linked and
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the earth is linked to the Sun its
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original energy source in humans not
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imitate plants and capture its energy in
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one hour
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the Sun gives the earth the same amount
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of energy is that consumed by all
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humanity in one year as long as the
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earth exists sun's energy will be
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inexhaustible all we have to do is stop
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drilling the earth and start looking to
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the sky all we have to do was learn to
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cultivate the Sun all these experiments
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are only examples but they testify to a
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new awareness they lay down markers for
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a new human adventure based on
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moderation intelligence and sharing
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it's time to come together
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what's important is not what's gone but
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what remains
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we still have half the world's forests
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thousands of rivers lakes and glaciers
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and thousands of thriving species
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we know that the solutions are there
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today we all have the power to change
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so what are we waiting for
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Oh
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you